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210 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 58. Before sunset Edinburgh Castle was in the hands of the Regent, and Mary Stuart's cause was extinguished in Scotland for ever. 1 So strange had been the revolutions of parties, that the last maintainers of that cause were men who had long stood at Murray's side, and had long been the keenest promoters of the Reformation and the English alliance. Grange had begun his public life on the me- morable morning at St Andrews when wild justice was done upon the Cardinal. Maitland had been Cecil's pupi}, the adviser of the marriage between Elizabeth and Arran, which would have dispossessed his mistress of her throne ; and Hume did more than any one to help Mur- ray to win the Battle of Langside. But Maitland, who looked on God as a ' nursery bogle/ and among his splendid qualities wanted faith in all great principles, had spun a diplomatic net about himself which at last was too strong for him to break ; and Hume and Grange, pursuing the will-of-the-wisp of Scottish patriotism, followed him to their own ruin in a blind belief in his infallibility. It was over at last over in shame and dis- grace. In consideration of his illness and of Elizabeth's known regard for him, Killigrew intended to have received Maitland as his own guest ; but the rage of the people against him when he was brought down out of the Castle was so violent that he was in danger of being torn in pieces, and he was sent for his 1 The account of the siege is I and Killigrew in the Scotch and taken from the despatches of Drury | Border MSS.